Metropolitan Learning Center

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Metropolitan Learning Center

District: Capitol Region Education Counc

County: Hartford

1551 Blue Hills Ave.

Bloomfield, CT 6002

(860) 242-7834

School Type:

Public School

Grade Levels Offered:

6 - 12

Charter School:

Receives Title 1 Funding:

Title I Eligible School

Local Area:

Rural

Milken Family Foundation National Educator Awards

Milken Educator Award winning teachers from this school

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Students:

667

Full-time Teachers:

Student-to-Teacher Ratio:

14:1

Student Eligible for Lunch Programs (% of total):

33%

Minority Enrollment (% of total):

74.8%

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Teacher Spotlight - Award Winning Teachers

Milken Educator Awards

Teacher's Name:

Thomas Brodnitzki

Institution Name:

Metropolitan Learning Center

Location:

Bloomfield, CT

Subjects Taught:

World History and AP Human Geography

Grades:

11-12

At the time of the Award , Thomas Brodnitzki was:
Teacher

Institution Name:

Metropolitan Learning Center

Location:

Bloomfield, CT

Subjects Taught:

Social Studies

Grades:

10, 12

Biographical Information:
At Metropolitan Learning Center (MLC) in Bloomfield, an interdistrict desegregation magnet school serving students in the Hartford area, teacher Thomas Brodnitzki has helped students dramatically improve their writing through social studies. Describing himself more as a "facilitator of student learning" than a teacher, Brodnitzki created a hands-on, project-based AP Human Geography class at MLC. Several student projects in this class were of such high quality that he presented them at a Yale University teaching conference. Brodnitzki has taught almost every social studies class offered at the school since it opened in 2001, and was instrumental in creating the high school social studies curriculum. For the past four years, the school's writing scores on the Connecticut Academic Performance Test (CAPT) have been among the highest in the state, and he has coached second- and third-place-winning teams in the statewide Geography Challenge. Coordinator of the National Geographic Society's "My Wonderful World" campaign, Brodnitzki was among an elite group selected to participate in the National Geographic Society Summer Teacher Institute in Washington, D.C. He has inspired several students to pursue careers in social studies teaching.